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NINA SIMONE lyrics : "Pirate Jenny"

You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors
And I'm scrubbin the floors while you're gawking
Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell

In this crummy southern town
In this crummy old hotel
But you'll never guess to who you're talkin.

No. you couldn't ever guess to who you're talkin.

Then one night there's a scream in the night

And you'll wonder who could that have been
And you see me kinda grinnin while I'm scrubbin
And you say, whats she got to grin?

I'll tell you.

There's a ship

The black freighter
With a skull on its masthead
Will be coming in


You gentlemen can say, hey gal, finish them floors!
Get upstairs! whats wrong with you! earn your keep here!

You toss me your tips
And look out to the ships
But I'm counting your heads

As I'm making the beds
Cuz theres nobody gonna sleep here, honey
Nobody

Nobody!

Then one night there's a scream in the night

And you say, whos that kicking up a row?
And ya see me kinda starin out the winda
And you say, whats she got to stare at now?

I'll tell ya.

There's a ship

The black freighter
Turns around in the harbor
Shootin guns from her bow


Now
You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face

Cause every building in town is a flat one
This whole frickin place will be down to the ground
Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound

And you yell, why do they spare that one?
Yes.
That's what you say.

Why do they spare that one?

All the night through, through the noise and to-do

You wonder who is that person that lives up there?
And you see me stepping out in the morning
Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair


And the ship
The black freighter

Runs a flag up its masthead
And a cheer rings the air


By noontime the dock
Is a-swarmin with men
Comin out from the ghostly freighter

They move in the shadows
Where no one can see
And they're chainin up people

And they're bringin em to me
Askin me,
Kill them now, or later?

Askin me!
Kill them now, or later?


Noon by the clock
And so still by the dock
You can hear a foghorn miles away

And in that quiet of death
I'll say, right now.
Right now!

Then they'll pile up the bodies

And I'll say,
That'll learn ya!

And the ship
The black freighter

Disappears out to sea
And
On
It
Is

Me

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